4000 Quattro Exhaust/Cat. Help! Help needed!

[Chris Covington]

Josh wrote:

>Besides being illegal and inconsiderate, gutting a cat can reduce
>power because  having a resonant chamber there in the exhaust may
>cause higher back pressure. It can also cause some weird noises in
>the exhaust system.
>--
>Joshua Van Tol -- josh at spiny.com

I disagree.  I had a gutted cat on my 1990 CQ (cleanly gutted) and I
figured much the same to your reasoning so I replaced it with a straight
pipe.  After that, the CQ sounded even worse.  The performance was
unaffected.  So I think you should just cleanly gut the cat and leave it
in.

Chris
'91 200q20v